2013-7to_Helen.ppt

The Poet and the Poem Edgar Allen Poe 埃德加?爱伦?坡 To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, oer a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont 习惯于to roam, Thy hyacinth 紫蓝色hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad水仙 airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche壁龛How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! Helen, thy beauty is to me?????? Like those Nicéan barks of yore,That gently, oer a perfumed sea,?????? The weary, way-worn wanderer bore?????? To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam,?????? Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me home?????? To the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche?????? How statue-like I see thee stand,?????? The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions which?????? Are Holy-Land! background Poe wrote To Helen as a reflection on the beauty of Mrs. Jane Stith Stanard who died in 1824. She was the mother of one of Poe’s school classmates, Robert Stanard. When Robert invited Edgar, then 14, to his home, Poe was greatly taken with the 27-year-old woman, who is said to have urged him to write poetry.而这个女人在三十一岁死于脑瘤 He was later to write that she was his first real love. Helen, thy beauty is to me?????? Like those Nicéan barks of yore,That gently, oer a perfumed sea,?????? The weary, way-worn wanderer bore?????? To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam,?????? Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me home?????? To the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome. Lo! In yon brilliant window-niche?????? How statue-like I see thee stand,?????? The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions which?????? A